Quotes About Mesoamerica

#1. During the Spanish conquest of Mesoamerica in the 16th century, the Catholic Church's Friar Diego de Landa supervised the burning of hundreds of Maya codices - fig-bark books rich in mythological and astronomical information. Only four Maya codices are known to have survived.

David Roberts

#2. Several Southeastern tribes have long said that their ancestors received immigrants from Mesoamerica and that these immigrants introduced many cultural changes. Far too few anthropologists were listening.

Richard Thornton

#3. North America in 1492 was not a virgin wilderness but a network of Indigenous nations, peoples of the corn. The link between peoples of the North and the South can be seen in the diffusion of corn from Mesoamerica.

Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

#4. Throughout Mesoamerica it was a common belief that a dog carried the soul of a newly deceased person across a body of water. According to the Aztecs, the first level of the Underworld was a place called Apanoayan (where one crosses the river) or Itzcuintlan (the Place of Dogs).

Elizabeth Eiler

#5. An average plan vigorously executed is far better than a brilliant plan on which nothing is done.

Brian Tracy

#6. Life," he said softly, "is more than flesh. Your body is a candle, your soul the flame. The longer I burn the candle..." He did not finish.
"A candle unused is nothing but wax and wick," I said."I would rather light the flame, knowing it will go out than sit forever in darkness.

S. Jae-Jones

#7. Last night when I was commenting on the FBI and the CIA, the sound went off for 27 minutes. I should have known better.

Jimmy Carter

#8. I collect rare photographs ... I have two ... One of Houdini locking his keys in his car ... the other is a rare picture of Norman Rockwell beating up a child.

Steven Wright

#9. In the particular lies the universal.

James Victore

#10. The United States is in the midst of many spirited political debates about national priorities and public spending ... However, we have found that science is an area where both political parties can find common ground, and in which political change does not necessarily create discontinuities.

John Gibbons

#11. Entrepreneurship is "risky" mainly because so few of the so-called entrepreneurs know what they are doing.

Peter F. Drucker

#12. First you're an unknown, then you write one book and you move up to obscurity.

Martin Myers

#13. I shut my eyes tightly, willing myself to go back to sleep. I want to go back to my dream, back to Caleb. I can't fucking breathe ! I can't breathe without him. I don't want to.

C.J. Roberts

#14. When we fight upstream against a rocky undercurrent, every foothold takes on a kind of urgency.

Arthur Golden

#15. My siblings and I had this theory that my parents were spies.

Dara Horn